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You can further facilitate positive interactions within

your organization by modelling behaviours that result in great

experiences. As the boss, do you take a moment to ask how

your team's weekend was? Do you hold team meetings or one-
on-one consultations regularly, so that you may discover and

address any issues that your team is experiencing? People can

tell when someone cares and who takes the time to understand

team members' goals, challenges, and interests, which may
help you facilitate positive interactions among your team.

5. Training and Policies

Employees might look at a negative situation and feel

that there is nothing they can do to change how others act or

how they do their job. Essentially, employees might be
mistaken in thinking that you can't take a negative scenario

and transfer it into a positive interaction for everyone.

Start with developing positive policies that include rules

about work habits, punctuality, dress code, and

communication. Set policies in which processes must be
followed because it helps keep things organized and flowing,

which enables positive momentum. Then, hold training about

communication, inclusiveness, and team building. Training

should give people information to absorb, as it teaches them

the importance of good communication. But this process then
needs to step up as it transforms into everyday practice, with

role-playing and procedures for implementing these practices.

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